The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 58
Certainly this kaftan is a very fine one, but I should like to know what master taught this young man how to make clothes.”
Who acts: kaftan, I, master · What happens: be, like, know, teach, make · To what, where: fine one, young man, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kaftan, I, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 kaftan | det |
| 3 | kaftan | kaftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 like | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 taught | obj |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taught | nsubj |
| 18 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taught | obj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 make | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this kaftan | a fine one | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | like | should | I | a fine one not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | past | master | this young man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient man=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | master not said here | clothes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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